A. G. Copeland

Discord in Harmony A. G. Copeland

Sheriff Cletus Haley knows nothing unusual ever happens in his little town of Harmony until that fateful morning in 1937 when unusual things begin to happen.

A series of thefts begins to unnerve the town and frustrate the sheriff. But when a tin of arsenic powder is stolen from the town's doctor, Sheriff Haley realizes much more might be at stake.

From the mysterious disappearance of the son of the town's most prominent family and the wind-whipped fire that claims the life of the enigmatic school teacher's mother to the deadly wreck of the Southern Pacific's Coast Line freight train, the forces of man and nature seem hell-bent on rendering Sheriff Haley's quiet little town asunder. It will take all of the sheriff's ingenuity and not a little luck to discover who is behind it all, discoveries that will lead him to the world famous Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove and to Ruby Jean Johnson, the nightclub's popular new performer, who will have no choice but to give the country lawman, as well as the star-studded packed house, a show to be talked about for a lifetime.

Against the backdrop of California's Depression-era labor struggles, its politics and clashes among its culturally diverse citizenry, Discord In Harmony weaves a tale of love and duplicity, duty and deceit, and yes, discord and harmony.